New build/first time builder help

Willing to Self Build or a Pre-Built:
Either have never built before but seems to get the most for your $

How much you want to spend:
800-1200

How much you can spend:
1200 top end maybe a bit more if absolutely needed

What all you plan to use it for:
Basic computing and games. I really only play WOW but would love to play at as good of settings as possible. I might eventually play a few others skyrim, swtor but games outside of WOW arent a huge deal.

What Settings do you Want & how much FPS:
Best i can get within my budget i suppose.

What Country are you from:
US

What can you re-use:
monitor

Network will be wired or wireless:
primarily wired

Any Additional Info Here:
I have never built before but have done a good amount of research into it. I am pretty confident that i am able to. I do not need a monitor just a tower its components and OS. I want to use an intel chip as ive read that AMD isn't up to par ATM. Basically looking for the best bang for my buck parts. Thanks in advance for any help.

Case can be whatever you want, really. Video card is likely more than you need. You could easily get by with a 660ti.
Hard drive sizes aren't locked down either. adjust appropriately but I'd stick with WD Blue series for the HDD, and either Samsun 830, or 840 Pro (Not 840).

Case can be whatever you want, really. Video card is likely more than you need. You could easily get by with a 660ti.
Hard drive sizes aren't locked down either. adjust appropriately but I'd stick with WD Blue series for the HDD, and either Samsun 830, or 840 Pro (Not 840).

Something like the 840 Pro is not needed. Let's just not talk about the lifespan/degradation level because it's not proven yet and it's TLC which would make sense. The performance over the 830 can not even be noticed, like a 0.75s faster boot who cares..

Personally I would skip the Asrock board for something like this -> MSI Z77A-G43 which costs the same.

Something like the 840 Pro is not needed. Let's just not talk about the lifespan/degradation level because it's not proven yet and it's TLC which would make sense. The performance over the 830 can not even be noticed, like a 0.75s faster boot who cares..

The only reason I recommend the 840 Pro is because the 256gb 830 has been on backorder on newegg for over a month now. The 840 would also be fine too. Making the jump from HDD to SSD accounts for 95% of the performance bump. So if cost is an issue, simply pic whichever is cheapest with the best capacity. There are other brands that are good too, however Samsung has proven to be good all around.

Personally I would skip the Asrock board for something like this -> MSI Z77A-G43 which costs the same.

I would too, honestly. However I've been getting flak from a LOT of people lately recommending MSI boards. I've used and sold them for years quite happily, and have probably had my own hands on more of them than 99% of the posters here. So far, none of those complaints have had any reasoning behind them, so I guess I'm just bandwagoning.

That rig is pretty much identical to mine in power. I run wow on High on 1920x1080 @ 60fps (vsync). I can do Ultra with 2xAA, and turning down shadows a bit, or overclocking to 3.8ghz (I have a stock cooler, you've got a better one, so thats well within reach). I don't personally stream, however you should be able to without any problems.